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A Decade of Open Data in Research — Real Change or Slow Moving Compliance? – Scholarly Kitchen (Mark Hahnel | March 2022)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in on April 29, 2022

The Linked Original Item was Posted On March 30, 2022

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Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Mark Hahnel. Mark is the CEO and founder of Figshare, which currently provides research data infrastructure for institutions, publishers, and funders globally.

There has been much made of the recent Nature news declaration of the NIH Data Policy (from January 2023) as ‘seismic’. In my opinion, it truly is. Many others will argue that the language is not strong enough. But for me, the fact that the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world is telling researchers to share their data demonstrates how fast the push for open academic data is accelerating.

Institutions, research funding bodies and publications have policies calling upon researchers to make their data open. There has been much written about the virtues of open data and the practicalities of achieving it (e.g. consent and acknowledgement and extending authorship).  But has practice in this area changed much?  Or are we barely complying with those policies? This Scholarly Kitchen looks at those questions and explores the state of play.

While a lot of the focus is on incentive structures and the burden for researchers, the academic community should not lose focus on the potential ‘seismic’ benefits that open data can have for reproducibility and efficiency in research, as well as the ability to move further and faster when it comes to knowledge advancement.

What has been achieved in the last ten years?

My company, Figshare, provides data infrastructure for research organizations and also acts as a free generalist repository. We recently received funding as part of the NIH GREI project to improve the generalist repository landscape and collaborate with our colleagues at Dryad, Dataverse, Mendeley Data, Open Science Framework, and Vivli. This community of repositories has witnessed first-hand the rapid growth of researchers publishing datasets and the subsequent need for guidance on best practices.

Guest Post: A Decade of Open Data in Research — Real Change or Slow Moving Compliance?
Mark Hahnel looks at the progress that’s been made toward open research data -- what’s been achieved, what still needs work, and what happens next?

 

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